Flying the Dynon SkyView Autopilot
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- This video is not for instructional use. It is simply a video diary of a flight during which I use the Dynon SkyView autopilot in ways that may or may not strictly follow the directions in the SkyView Users Manual.
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certainly a lot easier that plowing through a manual. i use the sky view on most flights and refresh usage regularly here. Thanks,
i really like your panel layout, very simple and uncluttered! Im building a RV6 and thinking ahead to avionics
Great video. Appreciate the information about how you use the SkyView day-to-day. Hopefully there are a lot of tutorials so you can learn and practice at home rather than in the airplane?
Great video, thanks!! Very cool piece of technology. We have the flight dek 180 w ap but this is awesome.
Just Curious, why did you not use the Dynon Transponder when you built your panel..I designing my panel know and see that a lot of individuals don't use the integrated Dynon transponder.
Damn you. I'm going to have to build one of these now.
You'll thank me someday! :-)
On out aircraft with Skyviw, auto. rudder and throttle imputes are still required.
Does vertical speed mode have stall protection? Thanks
No, but there is also an indicated airspeed mode. That would be the same thing. It would adjust climb rate to keep below a set airspeed.
In your "diversion off track to avoid oncoming traffic" demo ... why did you divert left instead of right?
I wondered the same thing... In all situations, it would be assumed to make a right turn...
Have you used the OBS mode with VNAV decent? Just trying to figure it out in my new RV12..
I love your plane and want one. I can’t believe with all that capability that this can’t be considered an IFR platform. Can you train for IFR with your existing equipment?
Also without a separate nav radio, can you tune and fly to traditional VOR’s?
I think you can train for IFR in an RV-12, but not fly it in actual IFR weather. It would probably require more than a Skyview though. That might be an exclusion for any LSA airplane - I’m really not sure. I can’t tune to VORs without a nav radio, but I could install one. The only point in doing that would be a level of redundancy if my primary GPS failed. I carry a spare GPS (iFly 720) just in case. The Skyview GPS can navigate to a VOR and even be set to OBS mode if I ever need to follow a precise radial. One interesting thing is that I could actually train towards a Commercial rating in the RV-12 because it is considered a technically complex airplane.
what is the FD button do that is next to the AP button on your optional AP panel?
That turns on/off the Flight Director. It's turned on in this video - its the two horizontal purple bars sitting atop two yellow triangles, right in the center of the screen. They display everything the autopilot is going to do. So, if the autopilot brain thinks we need to turn left, it will tell both the FD and the servos. The purple bars will move in a left roll. If the autopilot servos are disconnected, I would turn the plane so that the yellow bars are nestled up against the bottom of the purple bars. Basically it lets me replace the servos. This is handy in rough air because I'm allowed to be more powerful than the servos, which are by law required to be weak enough to be overridden, and can control the plane better in rough air than the servos can.
In the video they come on automatically when I turn on the autopilot at about the 1:26 mark.
What size of servo motors did you install?
One tip is not to try to hand override the auto pilot ..you can easily l break the safety shear pin which is costly to replace because of access issues..
The way I think of this is: you set the altitude you are going to, but you didn't yet set HOW to get there. Then you tell it either to go to a given vertical speed or to an indicated airspeed (IAS). Typically you want IAS to go up, since you don't want the airpane to go too slow, and VS to go down.
It looks like the Dynon SkyView makes your RV12 IFR capable.
it could be. I don't think the current GPS would qualify, but most IFR capable GPS would interface with the SkyView. You would probably want a heated pitot tube too, depending on the type of flying you expect to do. The amperage budget on the Rotax 912 with a single generator is pretty low, so a heated pitot might not be possible. I would like to set mine up for (trigger warning) light IFR, but I'm waiting to see if the new law that gets rid of the Class III physical passes first.
It`s a shame Big Brother won`t let us put this in c-150, and the rest of small the small planes.
+Jim Bo 007 Agreed. I don't understand the reasoning behind restrictions like that - maybe the big fish like Garmin have too much to lose. I can't see a safety concern at all, at least until you get into Complex planes - those are treated differently for pilots, why not avionics too?
Wished they just let us live free . ( wonder if it`s because us=corp.) ? :)
Your wish has been granted ... latest news from Oshkosh is Dynon (& others) will be available for part 23 retrofit.
You should climb in speed hold not vertical speed...
I've done both. IAS hold is problematic when there is a lot of thermal activity - I can easily exceed redline with a fixed-pitch prop when it unloads. I just prefer altitude hold.
Did you mean to say, "I just prefer Vertical Speed hold."?
This is not a jet or turboprop, use whatever works best for the conditions.
A lot of miss-speaking, Said 4500 feet instead of 3500 feet, among others, but good Video.
That’s a side effect of not having a script, but it’s also an indication that I’m a little distracted. That’s not a good thing, really.